DAY 1 _08.22.11
course introduction / overview
exercises:
exercise 01 - 07 - maya's "how-to" videos
exercise 08 - maya introduction on design reform
exercise 09 - modeling a canopy pavilion through direct manipulation on design reform
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DAY 2 _08.24.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
peter eisenman
projects / techniques:
memorial to the murdered jews of europe / lattice deformers
exercises:
exercise 01 - lattice deformer 01
exercise 02 - lattice deformer 02
exercise 03 - lattice deformer 03
exercise 04 - lattice deformer 04
exercise 05 - model the berlin holocaust memorial with lattice deformers, recreate this image.
reading:
colin rowe + robert slutzky - transparency: literal and phenomenal
richard joncas - "fixing a hole: a commentary on the architecture of peter eisenman"
peter blank - peter eisenman
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DAY 3 _08.29.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
peter eisenman
reading:
jeffrey kipnis - P-Tr's progress
alejandro zaera-polo - making of a machine
writing:
critique kipnis' understanding of phenomal transparency as applied to eisenman
video:
greg lynn, bernard tschumi, henry cobb, richard meier, sandford kwinter discuss the arnoff center on charlie rose
exercises:
exercise 01 - deformers
exercise 02 - melting object refer to this for making a lattice a softbody. once you make a lattice a soft body, every time you select it, you will be selecting the particles of the soft body.
exercise 03 - rendering
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DAY 4 _08.31.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
neil denari
projects / techniques:
micro footprint house / rendering
essays
greg lynn - the folded, the pliant and the supple
interrupted projections
graduate sessions 8
videos
neil denari with preston scott cohen
projects
high line 23
high line 23 retail site
ningbo
exercises:
exercise 01 - create a BASIC rendering in maya recreating this shot. do not worry about context, just recreate the model, camera angle, and texture.
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DAY 5 _09.05.11
NO CLASS - LABOR DAY
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DAY 6 _09.05.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
greg lynn
projects / techniques:
korean presbyterian church / blend shapes
reading:
why tectonics are square and topology is groovy
animate form
nytimes on greg lynn's bloom house
greg lynn on don't panic
origami catastrophe diagrams
videos:
greg lynn on calculus in architecture
a constructive madness: wherein frank gehry and peter lewis spend a fortune and a decade, end up with nothing, and change the world
MOMA on the embroylogical house
projects:
korean presbyterian church
alessi tea set
blob wall
exercises:
exercise 01 - blend shape on designreform
exercise 02 - recreate a rendering of this shot of the korean presbyterian church using blend shape deformers.
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DAY 7 _09.12.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
greg lynn
korean presbyterian church / blend shapes worksession
why tectonics are square and blobs are groovy discussion
additional exercises:
symmetry
texture mapping
more texture mapping
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DAY 8 _09.14.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
jesse reiser
projects / techniques:
0-14 / trimming surfaces
reading:
atlas of novel tectonics - the judo of cold combustion
cooper union on RUR
videos:
jessie reiser on envelopes
RUR lecture @ temple university
exercises:
trim tool
boolean difference
make hole command
create "simple" windows
boolean dos and don'ts
making circular holes
GSAPP's truss exercise
assignments:
create a rendering of this image.
read Forms of Expression: The Proto-Functional Potential of Diagrams in Architectural Design by Greg Lynn
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DAY 9 _09.19.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
WTC competition
videos:
united architect's WTC entry
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DAY 10 _09.21.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
ben van berkel
videos:
ben van berkel on envelopes
ben van berkel @ rice university 2011
the worlds strongest artificially generated tornado in mercedes benz museum
subDs overview
exercises:
exercise 01 - hand tutorial
exercise 02 - bird tutorial
exercise 03 - subDs modeling
assignments:
assignment 01 - write 150 words and include 3 images to describe your theoretical positioning for your design project.
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DAY 11 _09.26.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
FIELD TRIP: JESSE REISER LECTURE @ SCIARC
7pm - Keck Lecture Hall
assignments:
150 words on your perspective on the jesse reiser lecture.
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DAY 12 _09.28.11
maya introduction / theoretical foundations
NO CLASS
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DAY 13 _10.03.11
NO CLASS
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